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My goodness, have the Swiv-O-Matics ever grown! This
is a very well developed set of new music from a
band that refuses to recognize the boundaries of
genre labels. Exceptional and unique material here,
not from main street, but from the outskirts of town,
where the suburbs meet the woods at the edge of the
continent. Great stuff!
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Reverb Central |
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With "Charm City Surfer," The Swiv-O-Matics have, once again,
out-done themselves! I'm really excited about this album because
these new songs have everything that I love about instrumental
surf music, including great melodies, a variety of sounds and
playing styles, and the sense of adventure that makes this music
so much fun. Every song is a unique surf adventure with flowing
melodies, catchy rhythms and plenty of cool riffs. I have "Charm
City Surfer" in steady rotation on my Tsunami Soul show. Even
more telling, I have it in steady rotation at home! Thanks again
to The Swiv-O-Matics for making this great album!
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| --Tom Hinders,
Tsunami Soul,
WOBC 91.5 FM
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Kudos, greetings, and salutations shgould be ordered
and reserved for this Baltimore-based trio. To call them
a "power trio" might be accurate, but it would not even
begin to paint the picture that has inspired the antics
of DB Walker (guitar), DH Walker (bass) and Helmet Walker
(drums). 14 tracks adorn this album that might as well
be considered a Holy Grail to Dick Dale. The combo's
latest effort is a sterling recording dubbed Charm
City Surfer ... From the beginning to the end,
this CD is wet, wild, and wonderful. Surf's up...
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| --Mark Bounds,
Music Monthly |
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The first couple of Swiv-o-matics releases were
hit 'n miss affairs, with lots of good stuff, but a
few duff tracks that kept me from thoroughly enjoying
their albums. This time 'round they nail the sound I
dig perfectly, instrumental rock 'n roll that borrows
from the past 'n present, influenced by traditional
surf from the 60's, along with 50's exotica and 90's
garage rock. There are some truly amazing cuts here and
the cover art is very well done (unlike their last CD,
which showed the three members in a strip club staring
at a woman's crotch). Their songwriting is innovative
and playing is great throughout - it's obvious that
these guys are loaded with talent. It was really the
songwriting which let 'em down in the past - with this
release everything has come together perfectly to create
one of the best releases of 2003. **** 1/2
[No, only two of us are. -ED]
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| --The Continental |
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The Swiv-O-Matics are way hot, very cool, quintessentially
clever and super fantastically professional surf
garage party band immaculately perfect. Did I say that
right? What I mean is, these dudes are so easy to listen
to that you feel like you're oozing off the couch with
your buds, splashing waves of fantastico music over your
bod, just like in the heydays of the old surf, garage
and party bands. That is, of course, providing your old
surf band heydays included the best of the best because
The Swiv-O-Matics are not only a great friendly-listening
experience, they're also great players. And they're from
Baltimore! BaltoRockoSurfers! How spiky is that? Uber.
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| --Emma Jade Gunn,
SurfRockMusic.com |
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